Although our winter season was very busy, sometimes we just need to have some creative fun with friends! Photographer Joan Allen and I had been speaking for several months about creating a moody, dreamy Santa Barbara wedding shoot that also incorporated bridal fashion, poetry and art.  We designed and produced this wonderful wedding photo shoot [...]

Here are some of our favorite images from the Community Environmental Council’s Green Gala 2011. Not only was the party fabulous and beautiful, but it was one of our most sustainable events with a diversion rate in the high 90′s for the 3rd year in a row! This is green event planning at its best! [...]

A picture is worth a thousand words! This one picture will have to suffice until the C Magazine article comes out in January 2012 and fills in the fabulous details of this splendid fairytale wedding on a lovely Montecito estate. It was a magnificent wedding packed with celebrity guests, Kenny Loggins as a surprise performer, [...]

What could be cheerier and sweeter then a yellow color theme for weddings? In this current economic environment, we all need a little something to lift our moods! We did a wedding inspiration photo shoot last year where we featured a lot of lovely yellow elements and some of them are shown here. The images [...]

I recently visited  the fabulous shop P o r c h on Santa Claus Lane, where I came across magnificent sustainable garden designs by Jeffrey Gordon Smith Landscape Architecture.  I love his masterpiece “Out of the Box,” which was designed as a demonstration at the San Luis Obispo Botanical Gardens. Smith’s combination of rugged salvaged materials [...]

We recently had the opportunity to produce a spectacular Mexican inspired destination wedding at the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel.  The Santa Lucia Preserve is an exclusive, 20,000-acre private community tucked away in the Santa Lucia mountains – truly a hidden treasure amongst the popular destinations of Monterey, Carmel-by-the-Sea, and Big Sur. Photo credit: David [...]

We had an absolute dream of a photoshoot this week with the wonderful and talented Elizabeth Messina and several other fabulous vendors, listed below. I will let the photos speak for themselves, as they are simply amazing. With the deepest gratitude to our amazing vendors on this shoot. I would recommend each and every one of [...]

Oh how I have missed you, my long lost blog. Life has been so busy, I just could not find my way back. But here I am again, having followed a sweet trail of gypsy crumbs to your portal and we are together again, at last. I have made a video storyboard of gypsy images [...]

Who says chic floral design has to come at a cost to the environment? For a sophisticated look at your next event, incorporate succulent plants into your décor. Elegant and alluring, these water-retaining plants are adapted to arid climates and soils, making them low maintenance and extremely water efficient. Succulents have endless possibilities for use [...]

I love the color blue. It is the color of my logo, the color of the perfect eggs that my Araucanas used to lay, and the color of a favorite antique book that I treasured and gave to my dear friend because I wanted to give her a gift from my heart. Here are some [...]